Paralytic shellfish poison (PSP) has been detected at unsafe levels from the north point of Alki Beach in Seattle south to Dash Point State Park in Federal Way – including in the Des Moines area – as ...

The Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife is seeking feedback on its draft Endangered Species Management Plan for Southern ...

Olympia oysters, whose native range runs from Baja California to southern Alaska, are being enlisted as ecological engineers ...

It's been a decade since leaders in the maritime city proposed the Commercial Fishing Homeport. It is still far from being built.

Puget Sound orca pod threatened by salmon decline The orcas lurking beneath the surface of Washington state's Puget Sound are some of nature's most magnificent, imposing and endangered species.

Experience excellent beachcombing opportunities with low tides hitting Puget Sound this week.

A man allegedly stabbed his girlfriend to death on remote Ketron Island in Washington State before fleeing into Puget Sound, where he was later found dead, authorities say ...

Self kelp: Why would orcas make tools? Tool use and tool making have been well documented in land-based species. But it's less common among marine species.

For the first time, orcas have been seen making and using tools out of seaweed. The reason? Most likely as a form of social grooming.

Scientists have spotted a subset of killer whales using seaweed to scratch each other’s backs, marking the first known identification of “tool” usage by marine mammals. The “southern ...

Puget Sound, Washington, has experienced an investment boom in the multifamily sector to start 2025. Sales volume in the first quarter shot up by 113.1 percent year-over-year to $771.6 million.

Orcas off the west coast of North America are grooming each other with kelp, in a rare sighting of marine mammals manufacturing and using tools. For several years, scientists have been keenly ...